Airings: July 2025

A monthly digest of select dance news and performance impressions, primarily from the regions I cover in Ohio, and parts of Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania. By Steve Sucato [NEWS AND NOTES] Ohio Contemporary Ballet welcomes three new dancers for the 2025-26 season. They are Dallas-native Joseph Dang, who was with Sacramento Ballet, Sophia Gray, who grew up in Cincinnati and recently graduated from The … Continue reading Airings: July 2025

Airings: June 2025

A monthly digest of select dance news and performance impressions, primarily from the regions I cover in Ohio, and parts of Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania. By Steve Sucato [NEWS AND NOTES] Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre announced the appointment of Nicolas Gaudreau as its new director of development. Gaudreau will begin his role on July 7, 2025, just prior to the start of PBT’s 2025-2026 season. … Continue reading Airings: June 2025

Lang Lang Young Piano Scholars + CIM  Summit = Stellar Performance Recitals by Future Classical Music Stars

By Steve Sucato In a region teeming with world-class classical music offerings from The Cleveland Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, and many more, the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Young Scholars Summit performances may be one of the region’s finest classical music offerings you’ve yet to hear of. In partnership with the Lang Lang International Music Foundation’s Young Scholars Program, the summit, in only its second year, welcomed … Continue reading Lang Lang Young Piano Scholars + CIM  Summit = Stellar Performance Recitals by Future Classical Music Stars